William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying Quotes

People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

I am the chosen of the Lord, for who He loveth, so doeth He chastiseth. But I be durn if He dont take some curious ways to show it, seems like.

Yet the motion of the saw has not faltered, as though it and the arm functioned in a tranquil conviction that rain was an illusion of the mind.

It's like it ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.

It's like there was a fellow in every man that's done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watches the sane and the insane doings of that man with the same horror and the same astonishment.

... a man aint so different from a horse or a mule, come long come short, except a mule or a horse has got a little more sense.